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Fishing and tourism can also affect coral reefs. By removing certain fish species the health of the reef can be damaged. Tourism can also physically damage the reefs.
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Coral reefs are wet and underwater. Deserts are dry and on land
No they do not. Humans live on dry land.
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Coral reefs.
increased cyclone activity could damage land plants and coral reefs
Human activity is placing a third of coral reefs at serious risk of extinction. These activities include increased coastal development, sedimentation due to poor land-use and watershed management, sewage discharge, pollution from agrochemicals, coral mining and over-fishing.
Deforestation increases runoff. Runoff takes fertilizers into the rivers and shores that empty into the ocean. Fertilizer in the ocean increases algae. The algae consume all the oxygen thereby smothering other animals. The area become a dead zone and no little animals can cling to each other and build a coral.
C. The effects of coral reef destruction are: 1. Coral reefs protect the land from storm and tidal surges, so when they are all destroyed frequent costal flooding occurs 2. Coral reefs are probable sources of medicines to cure the diseases that currently run rampant across the earth. Chemicals found in reefs have been used to treat ulcers, heart disease, leukemia and more. 3. Coral reefs absorb carbon dioxide and use it to form their shells if they are no more coral reefs then there would be more carbon dioxide in the ocean and our atmosphere.
a low elavation of land formed from the surface of coral reefs
if we run out of coral reefs then we could have erosion and that would make our land smaller and condense the people that live on outside of the country...we need to preserve nature and its beauty!
The three types of reefs are fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. Fringing reefs grow close to the shorelines of islands or continents, barrier reefs are separated by a lagoon from the land, and atolls are circular coral reefs surrounding a central lagoon, often found in the open ocean.